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Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …
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Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data …
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importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the … computed over varying time horizons in order to examine how the effect on measured inequality as the time horizon is increased … is extended up to four years, reducing wage inequality by 12-26%. We proceed therefore with more detailed examination of …
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This paper presents income shares, income inequality, and income immobility measures for all race and ethnic groups in …
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earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data … used to study earnings inequality. We show that the trends in earnings inequality in the administrative data from the …
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I develop a method to estimate intergenerational mobility (IM) in education on large cross-sectional surveys and apply the method to U.S. census data from 1940 to 2000. The method estimates IM directly for children age 26-29 who still live with parents and adjusts for independent children using...
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distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s. However, because inequality has risen, the consequences of …
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We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined … find that income inequality and income growth patterns identified from administrative tax records differ in important ways … illustrate IDDA's relevance for understanding income inequality trends. First, we extend Bayer and Charles (2018) beyond earnings …
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We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic mobility. For white children in the U.S. born between 1978 and 1992, earnings increased for children from high-income...
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redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
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